Creative Bloq

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Build on what you know, and become a better graphic designer.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2021

USER INTERFACES Designing better links for websites and emails?—?a guideline Why are “click here” and “by this link” poor choices? And is it acceptable to use “read more”? All these phrases have become so common that many people don’t see any problems with them. How many times have you encountered or composed the following on websites, in emails, or intranets?

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ever since the addition of the Object > Pattern > Make workflow to Adobe Illustrator in CS6, creating seamlessly repeating patterns has never been easier! Beforehand, it was necessary to manually place graphics so they repeated from edge to edge, but now it can all be done visually using Illustrator’s Pattern interface. Follow along with this tutorial to learn how to create a seamlessly repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator.

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I Love Typography

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Hannes von Döhren, award-winning designer of the expansive Brandon superfamily, has teamed up with Bernd Volmer to produce yet another typographic hit with the release of the splendid Palast superfamily. The post Fonts in Focus: Palast appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether you’re a fan of retro pop culture or simply want to add a classic, nostalgic effect to your brand, we are here to give you some ideas on how you can use different design elements and create your own retro or vintage logo design. How to Incorporate Retro Style Into Your Logo. By definition, retro means anything that imitates a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Stay up to date with the latest graphic design trends for 2022! For those who want to know what’s currently hot in the world of graphic design, this article provides you with the top five graphic design trends for 2022. The past two years have not been easy for most of us. Social distancing, travel restrictions, remote work, and digital learning due to the ongoing pandemic left their mark.

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I Love Typography

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Only 10 days until Christmas! And what a year! To celebrate this year, we have something special for you, including some 100% discounts for a lucky few. In the ILT store you can add your favorite fonts to a wishlist. It’s a great way to keep track or to bookmark fonts that you might want to […]. The post Making your font wishes come true appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether you’re a fan of retro pop culture or simply want to add a classic, nostalgic effect to your brand, we are here to give you some ideas on how you can use different design elements and create your own retro or vintage logo design. How to Incorporate Retro Style Into Your Logo. By definition, retro means anything that imitates a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Those Boho-styled fashion carousel posts are currently quite hot on social media and this Instagram template will help you to really get attention. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @DannyAldana , this Boho-inspired fashion Instagram carousel template comes with nine design options for your social media posts. Each design is based on the size of 1080 x 1080px.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Simple, clean and elegant Word Resume Templates , best of 2021 collection are here. Modern style word resumes with matching cover letter, portfolio and reference pages. Each resume is very easily editable in Microsoft Word. All details are fully customizable and usable forever. You can make any kind of adjustments on these resume templates with or without knowing of Ms-Word.

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Eye on Design

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The standard of 2021 sleeve art has generally been impressive, with the gatefold back with a vengeance like it’s the ’70s again. That said, the proliferation of vinyl isn’t anywhere on the same scale: this year saw a logjam at the pressing plants with waiting times becoming elasticated, and box sets in particular on hold for up to a year. . While it’s never been easier to create something professional-looking on a computer, in many cases that seemed to be the gauntlet that inspired artists and

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Looking for great ideas for your new poster ? You’ve come to the right place! Creating an effective poster is all about making your skills and vision work in perfect harmony to produce a unique, inspiring design. At the same time, it also requires following a few guidelines and best practices to make sure that you achieve the intended goal for your poster, so before we get to ideas you can use for your own poster design, let’s first take a look at different design principles to guide

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Take this online course and learn how to create interactive and fully animated infographics for your data visualization and information design projects. This is an online course by renowned information designer Federica Fragapane. Divided into 17 lessons, you will learn to bring clarity to complexity by creating an engaging data visualization piece that communicates information with ease.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Discourse around the relevance of the album format and physical records have waxed and waned in the streaming era. However two of the world’s biggest (and most intensely monitored, in terms of appearance) pop stars reinforced the significance of the album cover – at times considered something of a casualty of streaming – as they marked their own return to the spotlight.

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Eye on Design

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Geometry, clarity, functionality, and a deliberate lack of ornamentation. These are the ideas typically associated with Bauhaus typography. . Famously, students and teachers at the Bauhaus school embraced simplified sans-serifs typefaces, believing that stripped-back forms would be more appealing, useful, and accessible than the ornate blackletter adorning most printed matter in Germany during the early 1920s.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 16, 2021

2021 is almost over and we hope 2022 is a better and great year for graphic designers, entrepreneurs and artists. In the year 2021, we published 100+ Logo Design and How To Design Logo related articles with thousands of inspiring logos and tips and by the end of the year 2021 we will compile another great list of Best Logos Of 2021 for our readers and subscribers.

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 17, 2021

To Infinity and Beyond, a self-initiated poster series by Damon Xart. Damon Xart is a graphic designer and digital artist based in Taiwan. He specializes in a wide range of creative work. Using gradients and fonts, “To infinity and beyond” is a self-initiated poster series by Damon Xart. Below you can see only a small selection of prints from the series.

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Vandelay Design

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s officially winter, which means it’s time to start decorating! If you’re looking for some free desktop wallpaper and background downloads, we’ve got you covered. We’ve gathered a few of our favorite winter wallpapers and desktop backgrounds, so feel free to check them out and download your favorites. From snowy landscapes to close-ups of ice.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Brochures are an excellent tool that you can use to engage and educate potential customers and promote your business. Not only do they contain comprehensive information about your products and services, but people also have easy access to them since they are distributed in strategic locations. In order to come up with an effective brochure design, you need to consider a few things to make a lasting impression (Such as best fonts for brochures ) on your target audience and produce the results you

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 17, 2021

How an object-oriented approach helps you to gain a better understanding of your content and tailor it to your users’ needs. We, as UX Designers, are the primary advocate for the user. Therefore, understanding their needs and goals is fundamental to our work. Being able to emphasize with them enables us to tailor an experience to their needs. Yet, in my experience, the content is of equal importance.

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Suitable for graphic design projects such as packaging, branding, apparel, or social media, these vintage labels are fully customizable. For those who want to add some authentic vintage look to their designs, this set of six vector graphics should be a perfect option. Designed by illustrator and graphic designer @Roverto Castillo , you can transform these graphics to any size you want.

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HONGKIAT

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Christmas is just around the corner and I’m sure you’ll be invited or planning for some parties, and if you’re going to a party with young kids or those with the young at heart, then maybe these few Android apps can help you entertain everyone. Bear in mind that there is no particular theme apart from ‘Christmas’ to this list.

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Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This collection has new fonts that are 100% free for commercial use. All fonts are beautiful and professional to use in web and graphic projects. Fonts are great for graphic designers. There are twenty seven new free fonts , perfectly fits for Logo, Branding, Packaging, T-shirt, or any design with a stand out or big typography. The following fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork.

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Eye on Design

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives experienced in 2021. This series of essays, Reflections, explores the human side of design. This is a story where everything goes left and eventually right in the end. My pandemic experience was intense. My immune system failed me when I caught COVID in February 2020.

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Logo Design Love

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The original Vancouver Canucks logo was designed in 1970 by freelance graphic designer and lifelong hockey fan Joe Borovich. Joe heard rumours that the Canucks would be entering the NHL, so he crafted a new team logo and took it to the Canucks’ stadium office for consideration. About a month later Joe got the approval call and was invited back to design tickets and various promotional items.

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HONGKIAT

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s near Christmas and the start of a new year. Naturally, you might be thinking about sprucing up the site design to welcome this cheery festival. We’d like to help you with that. To welcome Christmas and the New Year, we have compiled resources for web designers in the form of iconsets which can be used for free. You can download them by clicking into the linked source and grabbing the files in the format that you like (we have listed the available formats for each iconset to make

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Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Modern, elegant Website Landing Pages “ Best Of 2021 ” for startups and businesses. We want to make it easy for people who have limited programming experience to build outstanding websites. These landing page designs will help you to create a website template as a professional. Compilation of Best of 2021 webite Landing page design, it’s the first web page or the “ lander ” page that people see when they click on a search engine optimized search result.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The most impressive houses of the year had one major thing in common: they embraced nature in radical ways. Some were even built around trees – the Greenary in Parma, Italy, is a modern farmhouse constructed around a 10-metre-tall ficus, while the High Desert Retreat in California makes surrounding pinyon trees the central organizing principle. This spirit of communing with nature, also exemplified by D’Arcy Jones’ sheep-focused HA-HA house in B.C., is echoed in the emphatic embrace

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Graphic designer Dave Arustamyan created this beautiful brand identity and packaging for Croissant, a cafe and bakery. Dave Arustamyan’s main task was to create a logo and brand identity for a Canadian bakery and cafe specializing in delicious croissants. Since the cafe-bakery was located at a lake, Dave Arustamyan decided to create a logo in the style of a boat which also reflects the shape of a croissant.

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HONGKIAT

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Hi buddies! Christmas time is coming and we all know that is a great time for designers to work hard and make some extra money. As an overload of work is a frequent issue, there is a need to accelerate the creation process. We’re here to help. Today we bring to you a fast and easy tutorial to make a nice-looking Christmas Baubles also known as Christmas ball ornaments to some of you.

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